SHAMANISM IN MEXICO: Indigenous sacred practices & medicinal plants of power (English version)

Invisible maturation of the instant that germinates, blossoms, fades, and sprouts again.

Reclaiming the direct vision of the world, that instant of immobility in which everything seems to stop, suspended in a pause of time. Immobility that neverthless elapses -logical impossibility but irrefutable reality for the senses.

The practice is vision and sacrement, unique moment and ritual repetition. Practices and meditation exercises are not ends but means: once the daily perception of reality breaks down -once the vision of the other reality ceases to offend our senses and our reason, those agents of power are left out. Its function it´s similar to that of the mandala of Tibetan Buddhism: it is a support of meditation, necessary for the beginner, not the initiated.

The other reality is not wondrous: it is. The world of everyday is the world of everyday: what a wonder!

We lost the power that unites the one who looks with that at which one looks. Anthropology & sorcery lead to this to the unitary vision of the world: to the contemplation of the otherness in the world of everyday. The sorcerers did not teach the secret of immortality, nor did they give the recipe of eternal bliss; they opened the doors to the other life. But the other life is here. Yes, here it is,